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What is the noun for sibilance?

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sibilant
  1. (phonetics) A consonant having a hissing sound such as the 's' or 'sh' in 'sash' or 'surge'.
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sibilance
  1. The quality of being sibilant: a hissing quality.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Floating in glass-topped court-tank of aquamarine. Underwater wave lengths of muffled sibilance, mutated boom.”
      “There was nary a trace of sibilance in female voices or chestiness in male voices.”
      “An occasional sibilance of hazy white noise and clattering of plates pock marks the almost celestial church organ that began the piece.”
sibilancy
  1. the state or property of being sibilant
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Milton would not have avoided them for their sibilancy, he who wrote […] verses that hiss like Medusa's head in wrath.”
sibilances
  1. plural of sibilance
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  3. Examples:
    1. “She makes the most of the breathiness and buzzing sibilances of the Portuguese language.”
sibilancies
sibilants
  1. plural of sibilant
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  3. Examples:
    1. “They can't seem to handle hard aspirates at all, and sibilants are difficult for them.”
      “It doesn't involve any slurry sibilants and its only pesky, easy-to-drop vowel is held prisoner between two rugged consonants.”
      “Some readers do elocution lessons to get rid of troublesome sibilants or worrisome vowels.”
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